Author: Bill
Potential Samsung LED lamp replacement for early DLP lamp models
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 @ 11:43 am
With Samsung perfecting their new LED DLP lamp technology, I’m curious if the’ve given some thought (if it’s even possible) to offer those of us who own their lamp based DLP’s a better (4x longer life) replacement light source.
Bill
Member Questions, Samsung, Samsung Lamps
It looks like Samsung is having a lot of issues with their LED Based DLP TVs…The light output and quality of the picture is not up to par with that of the Samsung based based DLPs. Plans were to completely abandon lamp based DLPs by Samsung, but that has changed! Samsung will continue to develop the LED based technology as well as sell the more popular (and actually more reliable) lamp based TVs.
Our recommendation: Stick with the lamp based units. Samsung has really worked out the kinks on their DMD boards…and their color wheels should not be good for 5-7 years at least…lamp life is about 7,000 hours which is about every 3 years or so.
The LED TVs are an unknown right now, and just as is the case with all new technologies, there’s going to be technological issues that will take time to discover.
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Is there a way to test a DLP bulb?
Thanks
Jerry
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Samsung DLP units which periodically shut down and have to be restarted are not necessarily the fault of the bulb. Often the vent on the rear of the unit gets coated with dust causing the picture quality to become poorer and the unit will also shut down. To solve this problem vacuum the rear screen gor about 2-3 minutes and a marked improvement should occur. Do this at least every 6 months…..
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With Samsung LED lamps rated to get 20,000 hours, I wouldn’t imagine that there would be an issue with them going out. It may just be that since LED lamps don’t have to get as hot as UMP lamps that there aren’t the issues that people have traditionally with lamp life getting cut drastically short.
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